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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
Author
Series
Pliny Pennington volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Maggie and Michael Butler are found naked and very dead in a Wisconsin wheat field, murdered by two vicious shotgun blasts. But no one gets murdered in Kickapoo Falls, bucolic vacation retreat in the Wisconsin Dells, and home of the politically powerful Kickapoo Gunn Club. It is up to Deputy Pennington, the trusted number-two man in the Sheriff's Department, to find the killer. A top-notch marksman, Pennington had his sights set on Maggie Butler ever...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Emily is having the time of her life--she's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of their trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor. Kristen says the cute backpacker she'd been flirting with attacked her, and she had no choice but to kill him in self-defense. Even more shocking: The scene is horrifyingly...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When best-selling novelist Vaughn Orr enters her family's remote Wisconsin world, Riley Mays senses he is hiding something she knows all too well, and as the worst moments of their lives threaten their newfound relationship, they must find the courage to confront them to have any hope of a happy future.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
In January 1944, Grace Anderson, Lena Maki, and Lena’s mother, Violet, have joined the growing ranks of women working for the war effort. Though they find satisfaction in their jobs at a Wisconsin shipyard, it isn’t enough to distract them from the anxieties of wartime, or their fears for the men they love: Lena’s twin brother, Derrick, and Grace’s high school sweetheart, Alex. When shattering news arrives from the front, the lives of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 41
Physical Desc
624 p. : 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mystery and fantasy intertwine in this bizarre story of parallel universes being attacked by evil forces that only Jack Sawyer seems capable of dealing with.
9) Driftless
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
429 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Words, Wisconsin, an anonymous town of only a few hundred people. But under its sleepy surface, life rages. Cora and Graham guard their dairy farm, and family, from the wicked schemes of their milk co-op. Lifelong paraplegic Olivia suddenly starts to walk, only to find herself crippled by her fury toward her sister and caretaker, Violet. Recently retired Rusty finds a cougar living in his haymow, dredging up haunting childhood memories. Winifred becomes...
10) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates
"Time travel" — and its hazards—are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North
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Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. . . . A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short. . . . A phone glitch or an aborted report of a crime? Off-duty deputy Brynn leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to deserted Lake Mondac to find out. She stumbles onto the scene of a heinous murder. . . . Before she can call for backup, though, she finds herself the next potential victim. Deprived of her phone, weapon and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An acclaimed storyteller returns with "a gorgeous and gripping literary mystery" that explores "family, betrayal, passion, race, culture and the American Dream" (Jean Kwok). The residents of Haven, Wisconsin have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant's delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, happy to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. But when brash, charismatic, and tyrannical patriarch Leo Chao is found dead-presumed...
14) The drifter
Author
Series
Peter Ash novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his “white static,” the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming in nature, sleeping under the stars. But when a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Ash returns to civilization to help the man’s widow with some home repairs. Under her dilapidated porch, he finds more than he bargained for:...
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alicia Western, a doctoral candidate and paranoid schizophrenic, admits herself to the hospital. There, she refuses to talk about her brother. Instead, she contemplates madness and perceived experience.
16) Dead center
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Laurie Collins left him and headed west, New Jersey defense attorney Andy Carpenter didn't expect to ever see her again. So he's shocked when his ex-girlfriend appears on TV--and then calls him pleading for his help. Two coeds in Wisconsin have been found brutally stabbed to death. As the town's acting police chief, Laurie had to arrest a young college student with a carful of bloodstains who argued with one of the victims just before her death....
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1191 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A Time to Plant, a Time to Harvest, a Time to Love. Change is an inevitable part of farming, and growing up on a farm has taught five women how to be strong, adaptable, and continually hopeful. From Montana to Kansas, South Dakota to Wisconsin, these young women weather the storms of life by holding to their faith. But can love be found in romances that are as unpredictable as a summer cyclone?"--From the publisher's web site.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
308 pages
Language
English
Description
"He promised her he would never let go. She's willing to risk everything to hold on. In the aftermath of her husband's logging accident, Elsa has more questions than answers about how to carry on while caring for their two small children in the unfinished house he was building for them in the woods of rural Wisconsin. To cope with the challenges of winter and the near-daily miscommunications from her in-laws, she forges her own relationship with the...
19) Caddie Woodlawn
Series
Publisher
All Things Family
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the adventures of eleven-year-old Caddie growing up with her six brothers and sisters on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As the summer of 1993 begins, Sam and Swami Brecht roll into town with a twenty-six-foot Winnebago camper van, their three young kids, and the deed to Woodchuck Rafting Company. Sam and Swami met as young, adventurous river guides but, a decade later, find themselves weighed down by money worries and the demands of adulthood. The town of Thunderwater, in Wisconsin's Northwoods, could be the fresh start their marriage needs. But Woodchuck, once the...
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